1
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings,
Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun,
For my mean pen are too superiour things:
Or how they all, or each, their dates have run
Let Poets and Historians set these forth,
My obscure Lines shall not so dim their work.

2
But when my wondring eyes and envious heart
Great Bartas' sugar’d lines, do but read o're,
Fool I do grudg the Muses did not part
'Twixt him and me that overfluent store;
A Bartas can, do what a Bartas will
But simple I according to my skill.

3
From school-boyes tongues no rhet’rick we expect
Nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings,
Nor perfect beauty where's a main defect:
My foolish, broken, blemish’d Muse so sings
And this to mend, alas, no Art is able,
'Cause nature,  made it so irreparable.

4
Nor can I, like that fluent sweet-tongu’d Greek
Who lisp’d at first, in future times speak plain
By Art he gladly found what he did seek
A full requital of his, striving pain
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure
A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

5
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong,
For such despite they cast on Female wits:
If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it’s stoln, or else it was by chance.

6
But sure the Antique Greeks were far more mild
Else of our Sexe, why feigned they those Nine
And poesy made Calliope's own Child;
So 'mongst the rest they placed the Arts Divine,
But this weak knot, they will full soon untie,
The Greeks did nought but play the fools and lye.

7
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are
Men have presedency and still excell,
It is but vain unjustly to wage warre;
Men can do best, and women know it well
Preheminence in all and each is yours;
Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours.

8
And oh ye high flown quills that soar the Skies,
And ever with your prey still catch your praise,
If e'er you daigne these lowly lines your eyes
Give Thyme or Parsley wreath, I ask no bayes,
This mean and unrefined ure of mine
Will make your glistring gold, but more to shine.

 

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Εργογραφία

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts. London: printed for Stephen Botwell, 1650, revised and enlarged as Several Poems Compiled With Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, as a Gentlewoman in New England.  Boston:  John Foster, 1678.
 

1632 "Upon a Fit of Sickness" published 1678; 1642 "To her most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley" published 1650; "The Foure Elements" 1650; "Of the foure Humours in 1650; "Mans constitution" "The Four Ages of Man" 1650; "The four Seasons of the Yeare" published 1650; 1643 "A Dialogue between Old England and New…" published 1650; 1643 - "The Foure Monarchies…" published 1650; 1641 - "To my Dear and loving Husband" published 1678; 1656 "To my Dear Children (prose) published 1867; "What God is like to him I serve" published 1867; 1661 "My thankful  heart with glorying Tongue" published 1867; 1660 - "The Flesh and the Spirit" published 1867; 1664-5 "Contemplations" published 1678-1669 "As weary pilgrim, now at rest" published 1678.
 

The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse.  Ed.  John Harvard Ellis. Charlestown, Mass.: Abram E. Cutter, 1867. 
 

The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse. Ed. John Harvard Ellis. NY: P. Smith, 1962.
 

The Tenth Muse (1650) and From the Manuscripts, Meditations Divine and Morale Together with Letters and Occasional Pieces by Anne Bradstreet.  Ed.  Josephine Piercy.  Gaiuesville, Fla: Scholars’ Fascimiles and Reprints, 1965.
 

The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Ed. Jeannine Hensley.  Foreword by Adrienne Rich. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1967.

The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet. Eds. McElrath,  Jr. and  Allan P. Robb. Boston: Twayne, 1981.

To My Husband and Other Poems, ed. Robert Hutchinson. Dover:  Thrift Editions,  2000.
 

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